Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miners while forty to fifty miners are indicted for the killing of three deputy sheriffs. Miner's pay is forced down to eighty cents a week; three thousands out of the eighteen thousand miners are blacklisted. Local officials regard themselves as the agents of the mine owners; local clergy uphold the violence and the starving-out tactics of the operators, and only bloodshed could come out of this starvation. The Press has proved "traitor" to the working class, while "under the pretext of combating communism, the mine-owners are giving Communism every support and justification...
Harvard will uphold the affirmative of the proposition, "Resolved, That America needs a stronger central government." The debate, lasting about an hour, will be broadcast, over a national network of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and will consist of two ten-minute speeches and a five-minute rebuttal on each side...
...Harvard-Oxford debate in the first week of December will be of the split team type it was announced last night following the completion of arrangements with the English university. Under this plan, one Harvard and one Oxford man will uphold each side of the proposition and possibly a third speaker for each side will give a summary of the arguments presented by the preceding speakers...
...Imperial Japanese Army, which strives to uphold the rights of the masses on the basis of righteousness, will under no circumstances recognize Chang Hsueh-liang or the authority of his provisional government at Chinchow. The army is now compelled to resort to positive action to destroy his base...
Steps In The Run. Britain's immediate money troubles go back to 1925, when to uphold British prestige Winston Spencer Churchill, moon-faced Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, put the pound back on a gold basis. It had fallen as low as $3.15 in December 1921. If Britain's international banking was to resume shop, the pound had to be restored to its old value ($4.8665) to protect British foreign investments. So the pound was forced to par. Interest rates at London were fixed high to attract foreign deposits. A $200,000,000 credit was obtained...